30 In his epistle to Laeta he uses the epithet in its customary sense, of books unauthentic, not proceeding from the authors whose names they bear. _Opp._ vol. i. p. 877, ed. Migne. 31 Num. xxi. 14. 32 Joshua x. 12, 13; 2 Sam. i. 18. 33 2 Sam. viii. 16; 1 Kings iv. 3. 34 Isaiah, xl.-lxvi. 35 Chap. xiv. 23-50, &c. See Hilgenfeld’s _Messias Judærorum_, p. 107. 36 See Buxtorf’s _Tiberias_, chap. x., p. 88, &c.; and Herzfeld’s _Geschichte des Volkes Israel_, vol. i. p. 380, &c. Zwölfter Excursus. 37 Chapter i. 38 על ידי. Does this mean _for, instead of_, as Bloch understands it? Waehner inserts, to fill up the sense, “some of which, however, were composed by;” but this is far-fetched. See _Antiquitates Ebræorum_, p. 13. 39 Fol. 15, 1. 40 פחכ. _ 41 Studien zur Geschichte der Sammlung der althebräischen Literatur_, p. 127, &c. 42 vii. 12, συναγωγὴ γραμματέων, not ἡ συναγωγή. 43 That the Scribes always adhered to the prohibition to write no religious laws and ordinances cannot be held, even in the face of the Talmudic saying, כוחכ הילכוה כשורף חורה (writers of Halacoth are like a burner of the law). This may apply to the late scribes or bookmen, not to the earlier. The greater part of Geiger’s _Urschrift_ is based on the opposite idea. As the reverence for former scholars increased, the Talmudic saying might be accepted. See _Temura_, 14 b. 44 Chapter ix. 2. 45 Chapter ii. 13. 46 Antiq. xii. 10, 1. 47 Josephus’s Antiq., xiii. 5, 8; 1 Maccab., xii. 35. 48 1 Maccab., xiii. 36. 49 Sota, 24 a. 50 מבינים, Nehemiah viii. 3.